Zikhron Ya'akov — Infobox Israel municipality name=Zikhron Ya akov imgsize=90 caption=Emblem of Zikhron Ya akov imgsize3=200 caption3= The town s main restored street hebname=Hebrew|זִכְרוֹן יַעֲקֹב arname= meaning=Jacob s Memorial founded=1882 type=lc typefrom=… … Wikipedia
SYNAGOGUE — This article is arranged according to the following outline. origins and history until the first century first century c.e. middle ages modern period … Encyclopedia of Judaism
List of synagogues in Israel — A list of synagogues in Israel:Center District* Central Synagogue (Rishon LeZion) * Yeshurun Central Synagogue (Gedera)Haifa District* Central Synagogue (Haifa) * Ohel Ya akov Synagogue (Zikhron Ya aqov)Jerusalem District* Great Synagogue… … Wikipedia
MILEYKOWSKY, NATHAN — (Netanyahu; 1879–1935), Zionist preacher. Born near Kovno, Lithuania, Mileykowsky was educated in the Volozhin yeshivah and ordained in the rabbinate. While in Volozhin he displayed talent as a preacher and speaker and spent two years with the… … Encyclopedia of Judaism
List of synagogues — A list of synagogues around the world.A* Afghanistan: Charshi Torabazein Synagogue (Kabul), Yu Aw Synagogue (Herat) * Albania: Valona Synagogue (Vlorë) * Algeria: Great Synagogue (Oran) * Argentina: Mishkan Centro de Espiritualidad Judía (Buenos… … Wikipedia
FREIBURG IM BREISGAU — FREIBURG IM BREISGAU, city in Baden, Germany. Jews were imprisoned there in 1230 by the town s overlord, and released by King Henry VII. Rudolf I of hapsburg levied taxes from the Jews there in 1281. In 1300 the counts of Freiburg ratified the… … Encyclopedia of Judaism
LODZ — (Yid. Lodskh; Ger. Litzmanstadt), city in central Poland, center of the textile industry. In 1793 there were 11 Jews in Lodz; by 1809 (when the city was under Prussian rule) the number had risen to 98. A community was organized at that time and a … Encyclopedia of Judaism
KOBRIN — (Pol. Kobryń), city in Brest district, Belarus, formerly in Poland. The earliest information on the Jewish community there is found in a document of 1511 in which King Sigismund I, among others, ratified its privileges. In the 1563 census the… … Encyclopedia of Judaism
PARDO — PARDO, family which apparently originated in Prado del Rey, Castile, and which flourished during the 16th–18th centuries in the Ottoman Empire, Italy, the Netherlands, England, and America. The more celebrated members of the family are dealt with … Encyclopedia of Judaism
ḤASIDISM — ḤASIDISM, a popular religious movement giving rise to a pattern of communal life and leadership as well as a particular social outlook which emerged in Judaism and Jewry in the second half of the 18th century. Ecstasy, mass enthusiasm, close knit … Encyclopedia of Judaism
